Re: What would you want to hear Thomas Payne (author of Describing Morphosyntax) speak about?

On 3/30/07, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
> This is way too early to be sure of anything yet, but he is a
> plausible speaker for a future LCC.
>
> I'd just like to gather some suggestions from y'all for things you'd
> like to hear him talk about.
>
> See http://www.sil.org/sil/roster/payne_thomas.htm and
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/ for his profile & research.
>
> FWIW, he is not himself a conlanger, and would most likely prefer to
> talk about something that's closer to 'straight' linguistics.
We are all trying to write grammatical descriptions of our languages.
"Describing Morphosyntax" is about detecting and describing various
grammatical phenomena. So why not have him talk about describing
grammar, particular from his personal experience as a field linguist?
That's a talk *I'd* go to hear.

Dirk